We just finished up doing a fairly in depth presentation on cell phones in developing nations in class last week. To accomplish this, we met many times outside of class. First in these meetings, we talked about what the general concepts we’d like to cover, and what angle we wanted to take with our thesis. We came up with our thesis by talking about what our assumptions about mobile phones were, as well as global assumptions of developing nations are. From this, we realized that though there are some moral and ethical issues which are problematic about mobile phones in developing nations, on the whole it seemed to us that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Here is one of the many examples of how mobile phones are transforming developing nations. Yes, mobile phones are western, push assumptions about usage and culture onto developing nations, but none the less, they are a necessary tool to stay current, connected and competitive within the modern economy, marketplace and society. When deciding to do our presentation as a video, we looked at the fact that we wanted to integrate many anecdotes and examples which were already documented in video. It seemed logical that, instead of trying to doing it smoothly in real time with a powerpoint presentation, we would just create an extended video explanation of our points and examples.
If I were to do this again, I’m not sure I would do much differently. I feel very satisfied with the presentation and video we produced, and the message that it portrayed. I think that it was interesting and engaging, though I might be a little biased.
This is our video from our presentation. It contains all of the content used to make our main point that communication technology, currently in the form of mobile phones, is connected with the development of nations.
Ben Rogoza 